Any creating municipality and any participating municipality has all necessary powers in order to further the purposes of this chapter, including, but not limited to, the following, any or all of which powers may be exercised by ordinance or resolution of its governing body:

(1) The governing body of any creating or participating municipality in which the authority is located may appropriate each year such sums from its general fund as the governing body deems to be necessary for the construction, improvement, maintenance, or operation of any public hospital or hospital project or other facility constructed, maintained or operated by an authority, and money so appropriated and paid to a hospital authority shall be deemed a necessary expense of such creating or participating municipality. The governing body of any such creating or participating municipality shall also be authorized to advance or lend money, or real or personal property, to the authority for use in carrying out its purposes as set forth in this chapter;
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 7-57-308

  • Creating municipality: means any city or metropolitan government having a population of not less than two hundred thousand (200,000), according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, or any county in which any such city shall be situated, that shall create an authority pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • Governing body: means the chief legislative body of any creating or participating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • hospital authority: means a public body and a body corporate and public organized in accordance with this chapter for the purposes, with the powers, and subject to the restrictions set forth in this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • hospital project: means and includes any one (1) or more hospitals and related facilities, including, but not limited to, land and interests in land, facilities and equipment for the treatment of all classes of patients, laboratories, clinics, treatment centers, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, extended care facilities, dormitories, training facilities for medical students, doctors, nurses and all other medical or paramedical personnel, administration and office buildings, garages, parking lots and such other structures, facilities and improvements necessary or convenient to the development and maintenance of hospitals, and for the provision of health care. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Ordinance: means any ordinance adopted by governing bodies pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • Participating municipality: means any city, town or county, which city, town or county, pursuant to a resolution of its governing body and an agreement with the creating municipality, shall have sold, leased, dedicated, donated or otherwise conveyed its hospitals to the authority for operation by the authority in order to make such hospital an operational part of its health care system. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Resolution: means any resolution adopted by governing bodies pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(2) The governing body of any creating or participating municipality in which the authority is located may appropriate each year such sums from its capital funds as the governing body deems to be necessary for the purchase, construction, expansion, or improvement of any public hospital or hospital project or other facility constructed, maintained or operated by an authority, and money so appropriated and paid to a hospital authority shall be deemed a necessary expense of such creating or participating municipality. The governing body of any such creating or participating municipality shall also be authorized to advance or lend money, or real or personal property, to the authority for use in carrying out its purposes as set forth in this chapter;
(3) The governing body of any creating or participating municipality may borrow money against its general credit on such terms and for such period as it shall deem appropriate and sell revenue or general obligation bonds and advance, lend, grant, donate or appropriate the funds to the authority for the construction or improvement of any hospital project or other facility constructed, maintained or operated by the authority;
(4) The governing body of any creating or participating municipality may borrow money against its general credit on such terms and for such period as it shall deem appropriate and advance, lend, grant, donate or appropriate the funds to the authority for the maintenance and operation of any hospital project or other facility constructed, maintained or operated by the authority;
(5) To provide that any funds on hand or made available to it for hospital purposes shall be paid directly to the authority;
(6) To cause water, sewer, gas, electric or other utility services to be provided to the hospital authority;
(7) To sell, lease, dedicate, donate or otherwise convey to the authority any of its interest in any existing hospital or other related property, either real or personal, or grant easements, licenses or other rights or privileges in the existing hospital or other related property to the authority;
(8) To open and improve streets, roads and alleys to the hospitals;
(9) To provide police and fire protection services to the hospitals; and
(10) To enter into agreements with the authority with regard to the transfer of its hospital employees to the authority with the retention by such employees of any civil service status and accrued rights in pension, disability, hospitalization and death, and other fringe benefits.
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